Sarah Rowe (Lakota/Ponca Tribe of Nebraska), For My Fleabitten Diamond, 2022, oil, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 48 x 72 inches, commissioned for the Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Collection, 2022.0004.0001. © Sarah Rowe. Used by permission.
With a Little Help from Our Friends: New Perspectives on the Collection
Lower-level Gallery
March 6–August 8, 2026
Organized in honor of the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 50th anniversary in 2026, this exhibition highlights the important interdisciplinary focus of the Center and its core intellectual community, the Great Plains Fellows. The Fellows as a group are scholars and community members who are concerned with the past, present, and future of the Great Plains, and they support the Center and its mission in myriad ways. Learn more about the Fellows here.
For this exhibition, 20 Fellows representing diverse disciplines and all four University of Nebraska campuses were invited to select an artwork from the Great Plains Art Museum’s permanent collection and respond to it in any way they chose, whether that’s examining the work through their scholarly lens or through their own lived experiences. This project provides a new avenue for Fellows to engage with the Center and Museum while also sharing fresh and varied perspectives on works in its collection.
Participating Fellows:
Charles J. Bicak, Emeritus Senior VC Academic and Student Affairs, UNK
Christina Dando, Department Chair & Professor, Geography, UNO
Cristián Doña-Reveco, Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, UNO
Sherilyn Fritz, George Holmes Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, UNL
Thomas Gannon, Associate Professor, English & Ethnic Studies, UNL
Angel Hinzo, Assistant Professor, History and Ethnic Studies, UNL
Andrew Husa, Lecturer, Geography, UNL
Regina Idoate, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion, UNMC
Darby Kurtz, Assistant Professor; Archivist and Public Historian, UNMC
Salvador Lindquist, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, UNL
Peter Longo, Professor, Political Science, UNK
Louise Lynch-O’Brien, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UNL
Gwendŵr Meredith, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources, UNL
Larkin Powell, Professor, Natural Resources, UNL
Athena Ramos, Associate Professor, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UNMC
Todd Richardson, James R. Schumacher Chair of Ethics; Professor, Goodrich Scholarship Program, UNO
Beth Ritter, Associate Professor, Anthropology & Native American Studies, UNO
Liahnna Stanley, Assistant Professor of Indigeneity, Native Studies, and Communication, University of Utah (formerly Assistant Professor, Communication Studies and Ethnic Studies, UNL)
William Stoutamire, Assistant Professor, History, UNK
Laurinda Weisse, University Archivist & Digital Repository Manager, Libraries, UN